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Is there a possibility that you guys could send an email regarding the offensive user name of this character? https://www.ifi...

@kaykay @evan @sam not sure which one of you could help me with this. I am currently working on some "stuff" that I think may...

@evan @sam it seems that irobot has honed in on @pccheese. It appears that every answer and comment the little grasshopper le...

While going through moderation I've encountered that I cannot vote on anything. The question goes into a loop and then return...

I think somebody is trying to create a spam guide. Looks like @pccheese caught it while it is still a work in progress.

I was notified by a couple of our habitual users that they were having trouble posting likns to places like Amazon Ebay etc. ...

Looks like @pccheese is running into some strange issues. iRobot seems to have him in his crosshair. I do not see any spam ei...

Looks like something went wrong on here. Could you double check and undo the Spam deletion? https://www.ifixit.com/User/Activ...

Hi there. I've noticed that during the last couple of days I get this error message "You've made too many edits recently. Wai...

While converting a great question by @bearl from How does the patrolling system work? to its own question What is the thresho...

@sam @kaykay can you take a look at this profile https://www.ifixit.com/User/Activity/575... Not sure if it is a iRobot issue (I doubt that ;-) or if there is something else that has gone haywire

@sodel excuse me for having to clarify your question. Remember, I am old and need to understand what you are wondering about. So you downloaded the PDF guide for the optical drive replacement from here https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Sony+Vaio+P...-7A2L+Optical+Drive+Replacement/2338. Now you are wondering if the author of this guides receives points for that. If I am correct with this, then the answer is No. The author of the guide will have received 100 rep points once iFixit approves this guide (which sometimes takes years unless you are a student <hint> @sam @kelsea). The only points the author will receive after this is by anyone marking the guide as having been completed. If you like the guide and it helps you to finish your repair, mark it as completed to say thanks to the author.

@refectio no issues thus far with any notifications for me.

Some of this stuff seems to get totally lost on me. I get the exposure of iFixit and see the necessity of it but I do not think that giveaways are the way to go. It is my opinion that iFixit, by remaining true to its mission and continuing to supply outstanding parts and service, will lead the pack. It should be up to us to provide our support to the mission by providing good answers and good guides. We need to link to iFixit as much as possible to show that we believe in iFixit as a company. iFixit can become a market leader and trendsetter by focusing on upcoming trends. It is one thing to focus all of ones attention on Mac's etc. but as these become harder to repair, broad demand for parts will decrease. This will drive up the prices of repairs and parts. Most of the buyers will be the one-time-shopper and that is where the emphasis should be. Maybe iFixit could do a better job in increasing support to the DIY'er and not just the pro's. Now would be a good time to divert a bit and start covering emerging m...

Lyndon my friend, remember we are here for you. Some things just cannot be fixed but we can help to start the healing.

After I spoke to people at Amazon, Ebay and multiple sellers about apparent outrageous price markups, I was notified that this is somewhat common practice for power sellers. It is done so as to maintain a listing and not declare it out of stock. When a seller does not have the merchandise in stock but is awaiting delivery, they only mark up the price instead of altering the whole listing. The hope is that nobody will purchase merchandise that is marked up 10-fold but if it does happen, the buyer will be informed individually that the item is out of stock. That is the official answer. Of course, more sinister schemes like money laundering are always an option.

@refectio that is unusual for @qpunk1 In the past he has been nothing like this. Lets see if we can find out what is going on. @mayer, shall we try to reverse some of these ;-) downvotes?

@pccheese that does not look like iRobot's MO. That looked like a moderation issue. There were a lot of answers that got converted to comments etc. iRobot usually just kicks you in the gonads and leaves you 100 spam points down. Keep your eyes open and let us know if you see weird things happening, but limit yourself to truly weird things and post links......

@danj no he cannot, nor did he. He will have "Accept as Answer" on his mod menu and can (and has done so a few times) vote on it. There are no bugs. This is exactly the way it has always been, no change on that at all. It still requires 5 votes by users to accept an answer.

@annettefuller @mayer @danj I do not see that the professionalism is at stake here. What I do see are some bright people getting of topic. It is our responsibility to keep the chaos organized. Gentlemen, this is the job of the moderators. We need to ensure that answers and questions are appropriate and stay on topic. If we are so against it then why did we not moderate it? Instead we are suggesting that ifixit as an organization provides us with another place of idle chatter? I do not see that the argument about using rice as a tool is the chat, I look at that as needed to eliminate the myth about using it. It's the talk about rice as a dish that is the chit chat. Let the posters know to continue those talks on here. Why are we going to add another answer, that does not reveal any new information compared to the original answer? Gentlemen this is our doing! I have taken the liberty of removing the chit chat from that particular question.